Enjoying Everything that Columbia Has to Offer and More A Breakdown of Morale in the Ranks By Scott Rohter, April 2012 A very interesting but not widely covered item in the news last week was from Columbia, South America where twelve members of President Obama’s advance security team were recalled back to the United States for “disciplinary reasons.” Hmmm… Have some members of the Secret | Read More »

Obama could never pass a security clearance Standard Form 86 by Secret Service, yet he remains our Commander in Chief. The one question that would be asked by the Secret Service throws him out of the mix before they’d get started with a thorough background check. Here’s the question: “Have you ever been an officer or a member of, or made a contribution to, an | Read More »

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Scott Lincicome to discuss the recent passage of free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Columbia, Mitt Romney’s potential trade war with China, and the impact of Big Labor on America’s trade policies. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen | Read More »

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Scott Lincicome to discuss the recent passage of free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Columbia, Mitt Romney’s potential trade war with China, and the impact of Big Labor on America’s trade policies. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen | Read More »

It would be a tragic mistake to count any GOP candidate out of the primary race, if recent events are any indication. With the cloud of speculation over potential entrances by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie having dissipated, voters are beginning to re-analyze the candidates who have so far been committed to seeking the nomination. The decline of Governor Rick Perry in the polls, and the | Read More »

While Obama has spent the past two years pandering to leftist dictators in Latin America, he has also impeded ratification of free trade agreements with our allies. Along with Democrat leaders in Congress, Obama has refused to approve the 5-year-old trade pacts with Columbia, Panama, and South Korea unless Republicans agree to renew a trade subsidy program known as Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA). Yesterday, Senator | Read More »

While Obama has spent the past two years pandering to leftist dictators in Latin America, he has also impeded ratification of free trade agreements with our allies. Along with Democrat leaders in Congress, Obama has refused to approve the 5-year-old trade pacts with Columbia, Panama, and South Korea unless Republicans agree to renew a trade subsidy program known as Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA). Yesterday, Senator | Read More »

This Inside Higher Ed article (H/T: Instapundit) on Columbia’s (and the rest of the Ivy League’s) contempt for the military does its readers a grave disservice: it adamantly refuses to even acknowledge that colleges that ban ROTC from campus are ineligible for federal funding. This is an annoying, yet ultimately unsurprising omission, given that the only way that anybody can even have a ‘debate’ on | Read More »

This Inside Higher Ed article (H/T: Instapundit) on Columbia’s (and the rest of the Ivy League’s) contempt for the military does its readers a grave disservice: it adamantly refuses to even acknowledge that colleges that ban ROTC from campus are ineligible for federal funding. This is an annoying, yet ultimately unsurprising omission, given that the only way that anybody can even have a ‘debate’ on | Read More »

November 15, 2010 Dist. 85 SC House Representative Chip Huggins obviously thinks he owns his SC House seat. While obstinately refusing to back down from his commitment to voting for Bobby Harrell for Speaker, Chip reacted very badly to a constituent’s comment and threatened him (by obvious implication in the context of the conversation) in his stating that he knew someone in the Sheriff’s Department. | Read More »

Senator DeMint has not in any way disassociated himself from the smear campaign by the group, “Conservatives for Truth in Politics” http://garnetspy.com/2010/10/28/tiping-the-truth/ that was co-founded by his good friend Dr. Woodard and the infamously stretched face of Cyndi Mosteller. That’s an awfully high profile connection to ignore in this case considering the extreme nature of Woodard’s smear campaign. Just how deep is DeMint involved in this smear campaign?

www.buenosairesherald.com/BreakingNews/View/37400 Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez said Colombia’s next president, Juan Manuel Santos, should end US access to military bases, signalling that an easing of Andean tensions could be short. Colombia and OPEC member Venezuela have been locked in a dispute that has battered bilateral trade since last year when Colombia signed a deal with the United States to allow US troops more access to its | Read More »

Congressional Quarterly has a short piece on team Obama’s sudden revisiting of three free trade agreements that have been languishing in Congress for quite some time, all three efforts that the Bush Administration began but was unable to settle. One is a trade agreement with South Korea, the second is a Panama trade agreement and the third the Colombia Free Trade pact. It is the | Read More »

As we read that the Russians are going to place bombers in Venezuela and Cuba. As we read that the far left party in El Salvador is winning the elections this week, we must think back to American responses in the past. Were we not better off in the past when the CIA would pay for the assassination of South American leftists? I mean, we | Read More »

Below is the original version of my Letter to the Editor sent to my local paper nearly two weeks ago. They had me reduce it my eighty-three words and then (on the phone) confirmed they got it and all was good. Today was the last day of “Election Letters” to run in the paper. Of course, two Anti-McCain/Palin letters and one Anti-Republican letter ran along | Read More »